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Category: Dutch Tax Series

Life Sucks & €45.000 Inheritance Tax

19th October 2020 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Life

Sometimes you come across a (sad) story in the media that get’s your attention. The reasons for the attention? Drama is usually part of it, as is money. Add some taxes in the mix and you have a great story[…]

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How long does €1.000.000 last?

7th May 2020 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, How Much Do You Need To Retire?, Life

I bet you have the same question as I do on occasion. How long does €1.000.000 last? Oh, you don’t. Never mind… Anyhow, there are obviously multiple ways of looking at this. Including the use of many variables, as to[…]

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Get a pay increase for part-time work

22nd January 2020 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Life

How to get a pay increase for part-time work? It’s actually not that hard and it goes automatically in the Netherlands. The height of the pay increase does however depend on your income. How does this all work? Taxes! Those[…]

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How much do you need to retire in the Netherlands – 2020 update

25th November 2019 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, How Much Do You Need To Retire?

It’s that time of year again for me to look forward and determine the new “early retirement numbers”. We do this for ourselves each year to find out what our new target wealth should be based on a 4% net[…]

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Dutch Real Estate: Box 1, 2 or 3?

28th September 2019 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Real Estate

With the proposed new tax laws for 2022, there are a lot of changes for real estate investing in the Netherlands. The primary conclusion is that owning real estate as of 2022 will be a lot more expensive, tax wise[…]

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Real Estate or Stocks & Bonds?

17th September 2019 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Real Estate

Yes, the whole 2022 tax thing is keeping me “entertained”. Thanks to all for the comments and feedback on my last three posts (including this one). Both the impact on (our) FIRE target(s) and on having Real Estate has given[…]

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Dutch Real Estate and Box 3 in 2022

16th September 2019 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Real Estate

Last week we’ve looked at what the newly proposed 2022 Box 3 (“wealth tax”) does to your FIRE plans. As you likely know we use real estate as part of our FIRE plans. What’s about to change on this front?[…]

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How a government can screw up your FIRE plans

9th September 2019 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, How Much Do You Need To Retire?

Today a lesson from having fickle friends: Dutch politicians and the associated tax department. With the future stroke of a pen, they may make our lives (those whom strive for FIRE in the Netherlands) a whole lot more difficult. So[…]

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Financial Independence Europe Podcast

Financial Independence Europe Podcast

14th November 2018 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Life, Podcast

If you want to hear me try to squeeze 2 hours into 30 minutes, you got to check this out! You might need to play this at 0.5x speed 😉 Financial Independence Europe Podcast A while back I got the[…]

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How much do you need to retire in the Netherlands - 2019 Update

How much do you need to retire in the Netherlands – 2019 Update

18th October 2018 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, How Much Do You Need To Retire?

We did an update on the Cheesy Index for 2018 a while back and still need to do another one for 2019. This as wealth taxes have (and will continue to be) changed. To start the legwork for our 2019[…]

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Dutch Real Estate: Taxation Options

14th August 2017 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, Real Estate

Wait, don’t run away screaming because the posts title states “Taxation”. This one is interesting (for the Dutch at least)! As you might be aware, we currently have all our Real Estate being taxed in Box 3, to benefit from the[…]

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Dutch Taxes – Part 3: Box 2

How Much Do You Need To Become Financially Independent in the Netherlands (Part 3)

24th September 2016 Team CF Dutch Tax Series, How Much Do You Need To Retire?

Update December 2018: for the latest for 2019 version see here. (If you have read this post before, it is important to note that updates were made on October 10, 2016 as a result of various comments on this post. The main updates[…]

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August 2016 Cheesy Index (and Box 3 Tax considerations)

11th September 2016 Team CF Cheesy Index, Dutch Tax Series

The Cheesy Index made a remarkable recovery in August. This was primarily due to the amazing Savings Rate that we were able to obtain, for details see here. But also due to a very happy Mr. Market. However, we discovered two things this week and both[…]

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Dutch Taxes – Part 6: Real Estate

15th May 2016 Team CF Dutch Tax Series

We have previously covered the basics with regards to Dutch taxes, which you can find here. Real estate investing is, however, going to complicate things a bit further. However, it also provides some opportunities to lower you tax burden if[…]

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